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Presented at The Sustainability Practice Network
Panel - Innovative Business Models for
Sustainable Value Creation
Megawatershed Development The Sustainable
Solution to Current and Future Water Shortages
Worldwide
Presented by Nick Rutherfurd, EarthWater Global
www.EarthWaterGlobal.com
June 2009
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EarthWater Global Revolutionizing Water
Development Globally

• Applying its unique insight into the hydrological
  cycle, EarthWater will drastically increase the
  worlds known freshwater resources
• EarthWaters disruptive, scalable and proven
  technology will profoundly improve global health
  and economic development

By thinking outside the box, EarthWater Global
has come up with a businessproposition that
could change the future of water development
worldwide. - World Water Awards (London, April
2008)
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EarthWater Global Overview

• EarthWater identifies, develops and manages
  previously overlooked, large-scale, sustainable
  groundwater resources under long-term Service
  Contracts with credit-worthy government and/or
  private sector clients globally
• EarthWater has developed and demonstrated a
  revolutionary concept of how fresh water is
  transmitted through tectonic fractures in bedrock
  and stored in "Megawatersheds"
• The Megawatershed Paradigm expands upon current
  estimates of accessible, sustainable groundwater
  resources by a multiple of 10 to 100x in many
  regions of the world
• EarthWater draws upon data generated from a
  variety of technologies used by the oil and gas,
  and mineral exploration industries, and has
  developed unique and proprietary protocols to
  locate and access these vast groundwater
  resources on a sustainable basis
• EarthWater fully finances the exploration,
  construction and ongoing operation of all
  physical assets required for a successful project
• The potable water made available by EarthWater is
  incremental to known resources, renewable and
  developed in a manner to create a sustainable
  resource of enormous future value

EarthWater was created to help countries solve
their fresh water shortages by locating,
developing and managing previously overlooked
Megawatershed resources
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A Disruptive Solution for Water Supply

• Todays large-scale water projects must be
  affordable, financeable and environmentally
  friendly
• Megawatershed Development is the quickest, most
  environmentally friendly and cost effective means
  of water development

A cost-effective, sustainable alternative to dams
and desalination plants
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The Megawatershed Paradigm Redefining the Known
Freshwater Balance

• Over geological time, tectonic collisions have
  shattered the bedrock of the earths crust into a
  vast system of interconnected fractures and
  fissures
• Vast quantities of water from precipitation,
  typically at high elevations, enter into and
  travel through, these interconnected fractures
  and fissures of the shattered bedrock
• This water is forced downhill by gravity and
  eventually discharges into the deep ocean or
  evaporates from beneath the earth's surface in
  arid inland areas

• Gradual erosion, caused by millennia of moving
  water, has enlarged the water-bearing fractures
  to create massive interconnected fracture systems
  in many areas of the world, systems filled with
  enormous, constantly recharging supplies of
  potable water

The Megawatershed Paradigm expands upon current
estimates of accessible, sustainable groundwater
resources by a multiple of 10 to 100x in many
regions of the world
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The Hydrologic Model Traditional as adjusted
by the Megawatershed Paradigm
A
Precipitation

• Traditional Hydrologic Model

Transpiration
Evaporation
Water table
Overland Flow
Runoff
Groundwater
B

• Megawatershed Model

Precipitation
Transpiration
Evaporation
Infiltration
Overland Flow
Runoff
Groundwater
Percolation
Submarine Discharge
Through Flow
The Megawatershed model could increase the
groundwater available for development by up to
100 times
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EarthWater Video Documentary
Documentary available online www.earthwaterglobal
.com/documentary.htm
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EarthWater Track Record

• Teams led by EarthWaters President have
  completed feasibility studies and development
  projects in over 40 countries around the world
• Wells developed currently pump in excess of 50
  MGDs (189,000 m3/d) globally

• Several case studies are detailed in Robert A.
  Bissons book Modern Groundwater Exploration
  (2004)

• Afghanistan (2003) Under a USAID funded program,
  EarthWater identified 20 billion gallons per day
  of untapped, renewable groundwater (75 mm m3/d)
• Trinidad (2001-2002) Discovered gt250 MGDs
  (946,400 m3/d) produced 20 MGDs (75,700 m3/d)
  within two years

The water droplets represent regions where
studies have confirmed potential for large-scale
Megawatershed development

• Tobago (2000) Discovered gt50 MGDs (189,300
  m3/d) produced 5 MGDs (18,900 m3/d) within one
  year
• Sudan (USAID, 1987-1990) Discovered more than 10
  MGDs (37,900 m3/d) No production wells drilled
  terminated by the US State Department after the
  1989 coup d'état
• Somalia (USAID, 1983-1986) Discovered 20 MGDs
  (75,700 m3/d) produced 2 MGDs (7,600 m3/d)
  within one year civil war put project into Force
  Majeure
• New Hampshire, USA (1981) Discovered and
  produced 3.5 MGDs (13,300 m3/d)

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Tobago Project (2000)

• In a final attempt to avoid constructing a dam,
  Tobago contracted EarthWater to employ its
  sustainable Megawatershed exploration and
  development approach
• EarthWater Results
• EarthWater targeted high-yield wells in the
  Islands underlying bedrock as new sources of
  freshwater and chose locations proximate to
  Tobagos existing water distribution system
• Within one year, EarthWater had not only
  developed the amount of water the dam was
  expected to supply but also discovered 10x that
  amount 5 million gallons per day of sustainable
  groundwater was developed and a total of 50
  million gallons per day was discovered, (an
  amount 100x previous groundwater estimates)

• In the year 2000 Tobago was in the midst of a
  severe water crisis that threatened to discourage
  foreign investment and drastically curtail
  economic growth
• In June 1999, experts from a Dutch consulting
  firm completed a technical report for Tobagos
  government that indicated significant, additional
  groundwater could not be developed in either
  Tobago or Trinidad
• For decades expert geologists, both local and
  foreign, had concluded that Tobagos
  incremental groundwater supply was limited to
  0.5 MGDs
• The most viable option to achieve the 5 MGDs goal
  appeared to be damming the Richmond River
  building the dam would have taken eight years,
  cost 60 to 80 million (excluding the requisite
  infrastructure, roads, pumps, etc.) and would
  have destroyed a portion of the Islands rain
  forest

Robert A. Bisson, EarthWaters President, toasts
a successful project with President Robinson of
Trinidad and Tobago
Third Party Quote This type of groundwater
technology is very cost-effective and in terms of
implementation, is very timely it takes a very
short timeframe when compared to the development
of surface water sources Really, I think this
technology could be used on all of the islands in
the Caribbean. - Errol Grimes, President,
Caribbean Waste Water Association, Tobago
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Megawatershed Exploration Elements

• EarthWaters Megawatershed Exploration Protocols
  are a series of geoexploration concepts and tools
  for mapping, identifying, siting and monitoring
  Megawatershed production wells
• EarthWaters geoexploration concepts and tools
  include
• Modern Tectonic Theory
• Crustal rocks Fault and Fracture Mechanics /
  kinematics
• Tectonic Fabric Analysis
• Satellite Imagery
• Aerial Photographs
• Digital Elevation Models
• Geological Mapping
• Geophysical Surveys
• Delineation of Bedrock Lithology
• Hydrometeorological Modeling and Recharge
  Analysis
• GIS Integration

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Website Links Contact Information

• Relevant Links
• Bloomberg TV's "Venture" program interview with
  Founding Partner Cameron O'Mara, which focuses on
  the global water crisis, and EarthWater's unique
  technology and business model (March 27th, 2009)
  http//earthwaterglobal.com/bloomberg-interview.ht
  m
• EarthWater's video documentary (16 minutes)
  explains the Megawatershed Paradigm, its global
  implications and the Companys unique and proven
  approach to discovering these vast, renewable
  resources www.earthwaterglobal.com/documentary.ht
  m
• A case study on a significant project completed
  for the island of Tobago (video documentary and
  written) where EarthWater discovered 100x the
  amount of groundwater previously estimated to be
  available www.earthwaterglobal.com/tobago.htm
• The online version of a book highlighting the
  Global Water Crisis and our innovative solution
  EarthWater was asked to create the book for the
  2007 Emmy Awards Nominee Party where
  environmentally-friendly and sustainable
  solutions to global problems were showcased
  www.earthwaterglobal.com/emmyawards.htm
• EarthWater's award at the Global Water Awards
  2008 www.globalwaterawards.com/summaries/technolo
  gyidol/ewg.php
• EarthWater's presentation from the July 2008
  International Water Conference at the United
  Nations www.earthwaterglobal.com/documents/EarthW
  aterUNPresentation.pdf.